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Request: Mites in water dish

Teddy Roosevelt

Teddy Roosevelt

i loev cronsankes
I'd like to see a picture of mites in a snake's water dish. Preferably clear and well-lighted. All I can find by searching google and mite-removal sites are pictures of a snake and pictures of the mite under a microscope, which isn't helpful for real life. Thanks.
 
They look like specks of... Pepper! Their feces look like lighter specks (that don't move, of course). If you think you see black pepper on a snake, or in a dish in which it has soaked, be concerned.
 
I don't think you'd even be able to see them in a photograph. They are very small and black, the young ones are even smaller and white. Like Dean said, they just look like pepper in the water...I can go take a picture of that if you'd like?? :shrugs:
 
Pepper said:
I don't have a microscope, and flecks of pepper doesn't mean much to me.
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But they really DO look like flecks of black pepper. They usually like to hang out around a snake's eyes, and in that groove that runs between the scales of a snake's chin and neck. You really don't even need magnification at all! And they're really very apparent in the water too! You've been given useful advice, I swear!
 
I don't disagree that it's good advice, but I've found little black flecks in the water before which upon very close examination had no legs or any sort of "living" shape (and likely came from the half-log bark) and never found any black specks in his humi-hide, which is stuffed with damp paper towels. I jsut want to see a picture to confirm.
 
Pepper said:
I don't have a microscope, and flecks of pepper doesn't mean much to me.
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Dont need a microscope. :)
if your worried, i'd go to a dollar store (or walmart..i'm thinkin cheap) and get a magnifiying glass.
If you're having trouble getting a mental pic of what Roy is describing, try this:
Take a bowl out of your cubbord (preferably white on the inside), fill it with water. Take normal black pepper that you would put on your food (preferably in a shaker) and gently sprinkle some over the surface of the bowl.
it sounds silly, but i'm being serious. it'll give you an idea of what is trying to be described. i ALWAYS find demonstrations far more helpful than instructions...so i do things like this, when i'm trying to understand something.
I personally have no photos...i've never seen them, but I'm very famillier with what i DO usually find in the water dish (substrate, snake poo...all that fun stuff) and i look quite carefully just as a matter of course.
 
Don't worry about SEEING legs. If there's no "black pepper" around the eyes, and/or in that chin groove, don't worry yet. There are plenty of other tiny beasties that may be present (e.g., wood lice), but the ones that prey on snakes will not evade the vigilant observer!
 
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Peace
 
My had snake had mites not around the eyes or under the chin, but I caught it quick. You can see them moving on the snake without a magnifying glass just look real hard:)
 
Unless he has spectacularly small and strong mites, yes. I gave him a warm water bath last night in attempt to get some poops outta him (which he saved for after he ate today, instead) and not a thing came off in the water or the paper towel I dried him off with. What I saw was probably just junk from taking the half-log in and out of the tank. (It's proved to be an unpopular hide)
 
Good deal! Glad to hear it. And he doesn't like his half log? All mine that have the half logs like them...although they prefer their paper towel and toilet paper tubes better... :laugh:
 
Hallie said:
Good deal! Glad to hear it. And he doesn't like his half log? All mine that have the half logs like them...although they prefer their paper towel and toilet paper tubes better... :laugh:
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Mine ignores everything but his coconut. If I take the coconut hut for any reason, he ducks under his plastic tree. Predictable little guy.
 
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